Tony at the Breakthrough Prize Award Ceremony 2026
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Tony goes Hollywood at the Breakthrough Prize Award Ceremony 2026
Tony Hyman received the 2023 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for discovering a fundamental mechanism of cellular organization mediated by phase separation of proteins and RNA into membraneless liquid droplets at this year’s ceremony.
Silja Zedlitz received the Rainer Rudolph Award 2025
Our Matter-to-Life PhD student Silja Zedlitz received the Rainer Rudolph Award 2025 at the 77th Mosbacher Kolloquium, the traditional spring meeting of the German Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (GBM).
The final Lab Symposium of 2025
This time Akshaye, Daxiao, and Elsa presented their impressive work. We said goodbye to Jie, and he received many warm wishes as he steps into an exciting new role as group leader at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. We celebrated Tony’s appointment as Director General of EMBL.